Thursday, June 16, 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Tulip E-Go

Tulip have unveiled their new 'lifestyle' laptop, the E-Go. Designed more for women with a whole load of cash (especially the $350,000 diamond encrusted model), being modeled on a handbag, I can't help wanting one as well. Not only are they the first PC laptops to look genuinely sexy, they've got a hell of a lot of poke under the bonnet, as they say...
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
"Cats use fax as toilet and spark house fire"
From Reuters, and reproduced at Yahoo! UK & Ireland News...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house.
Investigators in the western city of Kobe have concluded that the fire in January was caused by a spark generated when the urine soaked the machine's electrical printing mechanism.
The fire damaged the kitchen and living room before it was put out by the house's owner, who was treated for mild smoke inhalation, said Masahito Oyabu, a fireman at the Nagata fire station in central Kobe.
The kittens quickly ran to safety, he added.
"If you have a cat, or a dog for that matter, be careful where they urinate," Oyabu said. "Especially keep them away from electrical appliances and wires."
BBC NEWS | France holds 'Chameleon' impostor
This news story is fantastic, not because Frederic Bourdin was caught, but because of his earlier adventures. From the article:
Bourdin was jailed in the US in 1997 for posing as a couple's long-lost son.Now, I realise three years had passed, but really... I didn't look that much different at 17 than at 14, and my eyes certainly didn't change colour!
The Texas couple's 14-year-old blue-eyed son had disappeared three years earlier and they travelled to the US embassy in Spain to meet "Nicholas Barclay".
Bourdin convinced them that he was their son, despite his brown eyes and strong French accent.
He lived with them for three months before his deception was exposed by a journalist and confirmed by a DNA test. He was jailed for six years.
But now he's been arrested again, because 31 year old men don't go to school. What an ace nutter.



